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Zalman TNN 500A - Complete Heatpipe Cooled Case

Posted by timothy on from the industrial-music dept.

SlashCrunchPop writes "Zalman is about to release a completely fanless computer case based entirely on heatpipe cooling capable of keeping even the hottest CPUs cool. Cool silence, at last?" The article's in German, but the pictures speak for themselves.

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  1. Re:What's the point? by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The point is that your $20 dollar case probably sounds like a jet plane taking off, possibly overheats occassionally, and if a fan fails you're screwed. This one doesn't have those problems.

    These also look a lot, um, cooler. In an ugly-modern kind of way.

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  2. Solid Copper pipes??? by NFN_NLN · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Those pipes look like solid copper. It must be a pain to re-route them if you use non-standard sized components. Isn't there a flexible material they can use that will still withstand the heat?

  3. Goes around, comes around by panurge · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Aber was kostet's?

    Reminds me of the high power PSUs we were building back in the early-80s for I-can't-tell-you-about-that applications. That was for 60V 50A DC-audio amplifiers. Why do Germans still go for all-black, finned military chic?

    Even so, the limited convection of this thing is still wasted capacity. It would be better, and almost as quiet, to have a chimney round the back with the fins pointing inward, and a slow air stream from a large fan being sent up it. It could easily be as quiet as a hard drive.

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  4. Re:English by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It is very likely that the official retail price of TNN 500A cooling system will be determined as about 900~1,100 US dollars.


    For that much money, you could go for a full water cooling system with one or two large 120mm fans. Careful selection of the fans would make it very nearly silent, certainly below the noise level of my bedroon during the day, which just off a main road.


    The Zalman case looks really impractical too, I mean the back has a door which you would need to keep open if all your cables didn't fit though the exit holes at the bottom. It's gotta be a niche market thing.


    MoJo

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  5. Re:Excellent by Zro+Point+Two · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I actually like the sound that comes from the fans in my system. It has much the same effect on me going to sleep as white noise would have on most people.

    Or maybe it's just me....I mean, I am the one who moved right beside an expressway because I liked the dull sounds that come from cars rushing past while I am falling asleep.

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  6. Fanless = dust free? by slim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but if there's no air-cooling going on whatsoever, does that mean the case can be completely sealed against dust?

    I'm sure inhaling the dust that collects in computer cases is a health hazard, if you do it often enough.